The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1887-03-31

The temperance people carried the coun-
ty of Frederick by 800 majority last week
in the local option election.
Senator Sherman is making tour of the
South, and delivering the ablest and most
effective series of speeches heard in that
section since the war.
The sale of the paintings in the A. T.
Stewart residence, New York, which took
place last week, amounted to over $500 900.
The race across the ocean between the
English yacht. Coronet, and the American
yacht, Dauntless, was won by the former
The time was over IA days for the former
and about a day longer for the latter. A
wager of $40, 900 was involved.
Senator Sherman's speech at Nashville,
Tenn, must have had a damaging effect
upon the Bourbon wing of the Democratic
party. They telegraphed to Senator Beck,
of KY, to come there and answer it, but
the Senator could only send them letter,
Why. certainly, Mr.. Spectator, it was
the F'Ring.' any way it could be taken, and
the peripatectic invention adopted was the
expiring gasp Of the Ring" wheth er it
be an old or new chestnut. Had the
Spectator mixed among the people last
Monday, it would have learned, too, that
they looked at the matter Just as the VIR-
eINIAN did and Goes. Our neighbor, how
ever, is generally behind the time, and
never catches the meaning of things until
awakened by crash, Look out.
The partizan movement in the Legisla
ture to throw suspicion upon Judge G. P.
Latham, of the Hastings Court of
Lynchburg, by resolution to investigate
trumped up charges against him, is a
disgrace to the parties instigating it,
Were be not Republican there would
have been no such resolution introduced.
To the credit of the Legislature all the
discouraged and distrusted, and nothing
will come out OF them.
Geo. M. Balm. jr., cashier of the Ex-
change Bank of Norfolk, was convicted
in the United States District Court at
Norfolk for having made false entries as
an officer of the Bank and sentenced to the
Albany penitentiary. 1t was claimed that
the proceedings were irregular and the in
dictment null and void An appeal was made
to the United States Supreme Court. On
Monday last the court granted writ of
habeas corpus, holding that the indict-
ment was null and void. Balm has been
confined in the Norfolk jail pending these
proceedings.
The Free Lance does not make out a
good case against the VIRGINIAN. The
parallel it makes is not parallel. There
is no analogy between the points presented,
when all the facts are stated. The policy
of the VIRaINIAN, and the measures it
advocated, were formulated long before
prominence was given to persons after
wards Identified with them. The repeal
of the capitation tax on the ballot. and
the whipping post law, the restoration to
the public schools of their constitutional
revenues, and other reforms, were first
presented in form by the VIRGINIAN. 1t
supported men because of their support of
the policy indicated. and not from any
personal considerations. There is moth
ing in Mr.. Barbour's legislative record or
in the measures that he has favored that
should give him prominence, or make him
an idol to be worshipped, at the expense of
all other interests. There is no proceed
for such slavish snbsefviency with which
we are acquainted. If Judge Goolrick's
proposition is to be acted on. it will be
found. too. that the people will think and
vote with us, The days of man worship in
Virginia are past. The people have grown
to be men who are thinking and acting for
themselves and are not much concerned
about the selfish ambition of any one.